Question

Difference between petrarchan and shakespearean sonnet

Answer 1

The Petrarchan or Italian sonnet, named after the fourteenth century Italian poet Petrarch, has the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA CDECDE. ... The Shakespearean sonnet has the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, forming three quatrains (four lines in a group) and a closing couplet (two rhymed lines).

Answer 2

The major difference between petrarchan sonnet and shakespearean sonnet is number of lines.

Explanation:

• The petrarchan sonnet have 14 lines, divided into 2 subgroups.
• They are an octave and a sestet.
• Octave means eight lines and a sestet means six lines.
• The octave follows a rhyme scheme of ABBA ABBA.
• The sestet follows one of two rhyme schemes that is either CDE CDE scheme or CDC CDC.
• The CDE CDE scheme is most commonly used.
• The shakespearean sonnets are sometimes referred to as Elizabethan sonnets or English sonnets.
• They have 14 lines divided into 4 subgroups.
• 3 quatrains and a couplet. Each line is typically ten syllables, phrased in iambic pentameter.
• A Shakespearean sonnet employs the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

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